The Top Ten DDoS Attacks of all Time

The DDoS attack has moved from a sign of cyber-protest to something tactically used to bring websites, applications and even DNS providers offline.

Infosecurity presents the top ten DDoS attacks (in terms of size) of all time. The problem with measuring DDoS attacks is that traffic figures are sometimes hard to measure, and in collating this list, some noted attacks could not be included as the actual attack size was unquantified.

1 Attack on DYN – 1.2 Tbps

The attack on the DNS provider took websites such as Spotify, Airbnb, Starbucks and The Guardian offline.